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Ultimate End and Common Good
- The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Volume 57, Number 4, October 1993
- pp. 609-619
- 10.1353/tho.1993.0002
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ULTIMATE END AND COMMON GOOD GREGORY FROELICH University of Alaska Anchorage, Alaska IN HUMAN ACTION what is last in execution is first in intention. For just this reason Thomas Aquinas begins the secunda jmrs of the Summa Theologiae with a consideration of man's ultimate end. It is the end and the end alone that renders intelligible all those choices and activities that human life comprises . " Finis enim